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Kalshi Benchmark

Kalshi is measured across 3 live OpenChainBench benchmarks: Polymarket WebSocket latency, live connection and update speed from 3 regions (ranks #2 of 2, 5.0 min p50), Best prediction market API, ranked by live latency and uptime (ranks #3 of 5, 291 ms p50), Prediction market API rate limits, tested with a daily ramp (ranks #3 of 5, 289 ms p50).

3 benchmarks · View on /prediction-markets

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Offchain US
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CFTC-regulated US prediction market exchange. REST trade API (trade-api/v2) with documented per-tier rate limits; the market data WebSocket requires authentication.

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Live benchmark results

  1. #2of 2

    Trading

    Polymarket WebSocket latency, live connection and update speed from 3 regions

    WS connect to snapshot

    5.0 min

    p50 · 24h

  2. #3of 5

    Trading

    Best prediction market API, ranked by live latency and uptime

    API latency (price endpoint)

    291 ms

    p50 · 24h

  3. #3of 5

    Trading

    Prediction market API rate limits, tested with a daily ramp

    Warm book latency

    289 ms

    p50 · 24h

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